Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Even though I promised to write about GLUE Journeys this is another topic I like to touch shortly. I was challenged via twitter:What is Governance, if not “sane and easy to understand rules, roles and responsibilities”?I personally place Governance in …
The Complicated Complexity Confusion Principle
Complexity is an objective quality of the real world. Complexity expresses itself in the wonderful behaviour of systems.
Complicated is a psycho-social phenomenon. It is a missmatch between the complexity of the world and our ability to understand and control it. Complications express themselves as confusion.
Confusing the two is the anti-pattern. It expresses itself in two ways.
“Anti-Collaboration and the Hungry-Hippo Secret Society.”
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Trapped inside their plastic bubble-land, committed forever to competing for access to worthless inedible coloured plastic baubles that represent to them a measure of status, members of the hungry-hippo secret-society collaborate in isolation from the world around them, waiting for their plastic environments to be exhalted as wonderful contributions to the mission, the project, the policy, the business requirements, the strategy, or whatever it is these self-professed dippy maven-muppets believe they are achieving without consultation, without reflection, and without harnessing the power and good intentions of the collective.
Earlier this year, a white paper was published on the integration of TOGAF® and BIAN, the framework of the Banking Industry Architecture Network. So how does a white paper help practicing architects in banks? Continue reading →
Today I read a very good blog post (just another) from Tom Graves, which worked as a blockade runner for one thought of mine where I was not really able to put it into words.“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the …
It started with an anguished Skype-call from a colleague: “Have you seen this?”, he said. He was pretty upset about it: and after reading the post he’d pointed to, so was I. One of the major consultancies – a self-styled ‘thought-leader’…
Today I stumbled over a Tweet which contained following quote: “Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context – a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.”,Eliel Saarinen&…
Trapped inside their plastic bubble-land, committed forever to competing for access to worthless inedible coloured plastic baubles that represent to them a measure of status, members of the hungry-hippo secret-society collaborate in isolation from the world around them, waiting for their plastic environments to be exhalted as wonderful contributions to the mission, the project, the […]
After a session with Mark Paauwe one summer evening, I determined to use my newly found technique on my client immediately the next day.The technique involves looking at the phenomena that annoys you, stakeholders, and users at large. By extrapolating …
In my last post I have touched the concept of people in GLUE and where people are connected to the more computable part of GLUE:As promised I will not touch people in this post, but start writing about GLUE Journeys. But then again as with all my other…
This is Part III of my collection of enterprise architecture definitions. Parts I and II can be viewed here and here. It’s interesting, at least to me, to get a sense for all the different definitions of enterprise architecture out…
This is Part III of my collection of enterprise architecture definitions. Parts I and II can be viewed here and here. It’s interesting, at least to me, to get a sense for all the different definitions of enterprise architecture out…